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World Religions in Practice / 2nd edition
A Comparative Introduction
2017 || Paperback || Paul Gwynne || John Wiley and Sons Ltd
A new and expanded edition of a highly successful textbook on world religions with a comparative approach which explores how six major religions are lived and expressed through their customs, rituals and everyday practices. A new edition of this major textbook, exploring the world's great religions through their customs, rituals and everyday practices by focusing on the 'lived experience' This comparative study is enriched and broadened with the inclusion of a sixth religion, DaoismTakes a th...
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Liturgical Worship / Druk 1
A basic introduction - revised and expanded edition
2018 || Paperback || Mark Earey || Church House Publishing
This is an essential introductory to liturgy for both ordinands and trainee lay readers - indeed for anyone who finds themselves having to plan or lead public worship. Well-known worship writer and speaker Mark Earey has written this book both for lovers and loathers of liturgical worship - and for those who want to discover it for the first time. This updated and enlarged second edition now includes:* How liturgy works as ritual;* The use of liturgy in different traditions; * The shape of th...
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Introducing the New Testament / 2nd Edition
A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey
2018 || Hardcover || Mark Allan Powell || Baker Publishing Group
This lively, engaging introduction to the New Testament is critical yet faith-friendly, lavishly illustrated, and accompanied by a variety of pedagogical aids, including sidebars, maps, tables, charts, diagrams, and suggestions for further reading. The full-color interior features art from around the world that illustrates the New Testament's impact on history and culture. The first edition has been well received (over 60,000 copies sold).
This new edition has been thoroughly revised in respo...
The Bible: Authorized King James Version
King James Version, with Apocrypha
2008 || Paperback || Robert Carroll e.a. || Oxford University Press
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts - the Authorized King James Version, complete with the Apocrypha.
Imagining Religion
From Babylon to Jonestown
1988 || Paperback || Jonathan Z. Smith || The University of Chicago Press
With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of ...
The Inner Chapters
The Inner Chapters
2001 || Paperback || Chuang-Tzu e.a. || Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that constitute the classic of Taoism, the Chuang-Tzu (or Zhuangzi). It is this core of ancient writings that is ascribed to Chuang-Tzu himself.
New Age Religion and Western Culture
Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought
1997 || Paperback || Wouter J. Hanegraaff || State Univ of New York Pr
Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinating work presents the first comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement. Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the histori...
Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed
A Guide for the Perplexed
2013 || Paperback || Professor Wouter J. Hanegraaff || Bloomsbury Publishing
A practical and accessible guide and introduction to the field of Western Esotericism
God Is Not One
The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World
2020 || Paperback || Stephen Prothero || HarperCollins
In the twenty-first century, religion remains the single greatest influencein the world. But, argues religion scholar Stephen Prothero, persistentattempts to portray all religions as different paths to the same God overlookthe distinct human problem that each seeks to solve. For example:Islam: the problem is pride / the solution is submissionChristianity: the problem is sin / the solution is salvationBuddhism: the problem is suffering / the solution is awakeningJudaism: the problem is exile /...
Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling
2006 || Paperback || Soren Kierkegaard || Cambridge University Press
In this rich and resonant work, Kierkegaard reflects on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. This volume, first published in 2006, presents the first new English translation for twenty years, by Sylvia Walsh, together with an introduction by C. Stephen Evans.